"Are Vaginal Tampons Prejudicial to Health?"
(Proof for a British Tampax ad, 1952) - French & American box, tampons & instructions
of 1938 compared - Tampax brochure, Germany,
probably early 1950s - "No belts. no pins . .
. ." ad, 1956(?)
Booklets menstrual hygiene companies made
for girls, women and teachers - patent medicine
- a list of books and articles about menstruation
- videos
See a Kotex ad advertising a Marjorie May
booklet.
See many more similar booklets.
See ads for menarche-education booklets:
Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday (Kotex, 1932),
Tampax tampons (1970, with Susan Dey), Personal
Products (1955, with Carol Lynley), and German o.b.
tampons (lower ad, 1981)
And read Lynn Peril's series about these
and similar booklets!
Read the full text of the 1935 Canadian edition
of Marjorie May's Twelfth Birthday, probably identical to the American edition.
More ads for teens (see also introductory
page for teenage advertising): Are you in the know? (Kotex napkins and Quest napkin powder, 1948, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1949, U.S.A.)Are you in
the know? (Kotex napkins, 1953, U.S.A.),
Are you in the know? (Kotex
napkins and belts, 1964, U.S.A.), Freedom
(1990, Germany), Kotex (1992, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Pursettes (1974, U.S.A.), Saba (1975, Denmark)
See early tampons and a list of tampon on this site - at least the ones I've cataloged.
 
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"How Times Have Changed: A Manual of Menstruation, Its Purpose,
Function and Care," Tampax Inc., 1950s, U.S.A.
A Dutchman - the faithful contributor of many items recently - kindly
sent these scans.
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Below: Pp. 1-2. In the right-hand column
it's almost certainly not true that women could
buy no disposables in America until after WWI. Lister's
Towels (pads) and possibly Hartmann's pads
were available before WWI. Women have probably often made their tampons
but the book seems to be right that no commercial tampons were available
(until the early 1930s, in America, then in Europe).
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Below: You can read more about research
on recent superstitions in Blood Magic: The Anthropology
of Menstruation by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb (U. of California,
1988).
Read the pertinent verses in the Bible for column
two, below. The same column refers to seclusion in India in the past; read
about seclusion in India today.
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